The worm turns at last, and so does the worker.
Let them dare to execute their devilish plot
and every state in this Union will resound
with the tramp of revolution
-Eugene Victor Debs
Hellraisers Journal, Tuesday June 4, 1907
Boise, Idaho – Eugene Debs Will Not Attend Haywood Trial
From the South Dakota Lead Daily Call of June 1, 1907:
DON’T WANT DEBS
—–Haywood’s Attorneys Request Debs,
the Famous Socialistic Labor Leader,
Not to Attend the Trial Now on at Boise
—–[…]
BOISE, Idaho, June 1.-Eugene V. Debs, the leading apostle of socialism in the country, has been requested by Attorneys Richardson and Darrow to stay away from Boise during the progress of the Haywood trial. Debs has replied to the letter of Haywood’s counsel announcing his acquiescence in their desire.
The correspondence was perfectly friendly, Debs accepting the reasons advanced by Richardson and Darrow as sufficient.
The socialist problem is a serious and difficult one for the defense attorneys. A dozen representatives of as many socialistic publications are attending the trial and each is at odds with the other….
The request to Debs was made because of a statement published over his signature a year ago in which he declared for an armed demonstration if the Colorado men were executed…
[Photograph added.]
From the June 3rd Evening Star of Independence, Kansas:
Debs Treats Ladies to Ice Cream
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Girard correspondence in the Pittsburg Headlight [Pittsburg, Kansas]: Eugene V. Debs, who is living in Girard for the present, treated the ladies who are employed at the Appeal to reason office very liberally to ice cream, cake and candy at Decker’s Candy Kitchen, after office hours last Friday afternoon.
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SOURCES
Lead Daily Call
(Lead, South Dakota)
-June 1, 1907
https://www.newspapers.com/image/91771843/
The Evening Star
(Independence, Kansas)
-June 3, 1907
https://www.newspapers.com/image/92736492/
IMAGE
HMP, EVD, Eugene OR Guard, May 30, 1907
https://www.newspapers.com/image/97086008/
See also:
“Arouse, Ye Slaves!” by Eugene V. Debs
First pub’d in Appeal to Reason on March 10, 1906
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/parties/spusa/1906/0310-debs-arouseyeslaves.pdf
Bill Haywood’s Book
The Autobiography of William D. Haywood
-by Big Bill Haywood
International Publishers, 1929
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000859708
See pages 206-7, for Haywood’s opinion on why Debs did not come to Boise
in order to cover the trial for the Appeal to Reason:
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015050276461;view=1up;seq=210
The Last Presbyterian?: Remembering the Faith of My Forebears
-by Kenneth L. Cuthbertson
Wipf and Stock Publishers, May 8, 2013
https://books.google.com/books?id=p61NAwAAQBAJ
(search with: debs decker’s)
Writing about Girard, Kansas, the author recounts this story:
Debs loved children, and once bought my Aunt Juanita-who became the matriarch-a sack of chocolates at Decker’s Candy Kitchen on the town square.